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BALDUR’S GATE III

A weird property of videogames is that, no matter how long they’ve been in development, as soon as they release about one million voices will shout in unison, “Hey, how come you didn’t include this feature we were obviously going to want?”

For , it was city maps, because instead of proper street maps the RPG launched with sparse dot fields that look like abstract illustrations of loneliness. For , it was the ability to change your appearance mid-game, as well as already feels like a notably better game. And we gave it a 97%!

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